(No) soy de aqui

"This work speaks about my relationship with my own land: it was born of a faint but persistent discomfort, of the feeling of disbelief about my surroundings and of a dual rejection / attraction that this territory provokes in me. "(No) soy de aquí/ I´m (not) from here " is the exploration of that discomfort and of my own beliefs about Murcia, the region of the southeast of Spain where I live.

My Murcia is a grotesque and formless place, insecure about its identity. The signs and portents I have been photographing along the way are to me the unequivocal clues of this lack of identity. Ruins that seem monuments and monuments that seem ruins, these surrealistic displays may seem simple jokes at first, but beyond their obvious humor a deep confusion and the desire to find some meaning or purpose can also be found. Even if the way to reach that goal is to use external references or borrowed stories, not too well understood.

So, my desire is not to offer just a parody of this crazy South or a comical taxonomy of provincial disasters. I think these jarring images speak as much about our present bleak economic crisis and poor prospects as about similar nonsense of the past. I hope that, by facing such foolishness with its distorted reflections we can find some way to escape these endless cycles.

Exorcism, homage, mockery and research at once, (No) soy de aquí is the (self) portrait, made by one of its confused inhabitants, of a place impossible but real."

Présentation sur le site de l'artiste : "Aby Warburg states that the historic discourse is never born, that it can always begin again. The past, according to Warburg, is as invented as discovered and it's the mere product of an inventor of history, the historian, who reconstructs the absence of his lost object and shapes, from his point of view and...

Présentation par l'artiste : "After the housing crisis caused by the economic and political power, the housing authority decided to open an investigation to assess its consequences. Given that previous reports were ambiguous, fieldwork was needed. Thus an investigator was sent to ZONA with the specific aim of preparing a visual report on the urban...